The Capitol Hill police have their own rules and always have. Their hatred for bike messengers, even when bike messengers were absolutely vital to keeping the Hill running (unlike now), is legendary.

This is why “reaching for my gun” is such a flimsy excuse - anyone who wants a cop’s weapon just can just wait for them to go to the can.

No bullshit they should be fired.

Just the other day I heard a clanging in my dryer. Sure enough, I’d forgotten to take out my trident, again.

Perhaps as part of their re-training, they could take a hint from the Marines’ Riflemens’ Creed. “This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life”. Etc, etc. Can someone re-write this for a Glock?

Why does this stock photo exist? Who/what is the market they had in mind when they took it? How did the conversation between photographer and subject go? I have so many questions.

Ha! Yes, that strategy has worked so well for people with AIDS.

No, I did not. HIV/AIDS is already a problem for women in particular, because their husbands go out and have sex, but refuse to use condoms because that is somehow a worse offense. Look it up.

Ebola worker here (currently in Sierra Leone). It’s not at all certain that this was actually sexual transmission - it’s a theory, but not a fact. And just finding RNA in semen does not necessarily mean that it’s able to infect another person - they’ll have to do more research to be certain of that.

It’s already fucked for Catholics living in Africa. The Pope refuses to let them wear condoms.

That’s pretty interesting. How long until you think this gets compiled into American “abstinence only education” materials? Five minutes ago?

“My responsibility as a human being is to love and accept everybody. Not to criticize people for who they are.”

Yep. It’s a spirochete like syphilis, and they’ve found it in the vaginal secretions and semen of people with Lyme disease. They found a couple with identical strains of Lyme disease, which is nearly impossible because having the same tick bite two people just doesn’t happen. It’s nuts.

When is your next open enrollment?

It actually looks like Stick Stickley to me.

Good thing I’m a lesbian then. If only all women were so lucky.

Eek, that’s frightening. Kind of like how they found out within the last couple years that Lyme disease can be transmitted sexually.

Semen, the deadliest substance known to man, or at least, woman.